Start to Finish: Building Our 50' Skater

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11-25-2016, 07:37 PM

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crashed on the couch for a quick rest and then I heard what sounded like electric motors going by.... wife even came upstairs to ask what that noise was ... good thing I have been following this thread off/on from the start so when I saw that 50' Silver hull with the rooster tail I knew exactly what it was. Man there were not even any fishing boats out with that front coming in. Great job Tyson and keep up the great thread.

11-25-2016, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by AZMIDLYF

Impressed and a bit worried that you are launching/running this monster solo. No support crew?

bro, keep up ! page 29, post # 284

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/g...skater-29.html

11-25-2016, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by outonsafari

bro, keep up ! page 29, post # 284

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/g...skater-29.html

Must have skipped that page...I say it again...I am impressed with you running this by yourself.

11-26-2016, 09:05 AM

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Why is the boat still at Skater?

11-26-2016, 09:08 AM

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totally meant as a joke, just forgot to put in the lol and/or the ha ha
i'd be crushing diamonds in my a$$ if i had to move that thing into or outta the dock

11-26-2016, 09:34 AM

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Why is the boat still at Skater?

Which boat?

11-26-2016, 11:41 AM

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Impressed and a bit worried that you are launching/running this monster solo. No support crew?

Most of the time I have at least one person there to move the truck or go with me. But I'm pretty good at being a one man show

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Originally Posted by ApachePete

Sure looks like Lake Macatawa. So, why not venture out into the the big lake?

There are a couple things I have made for the boat that I'm not sure if they are going to work so I wanted to stay in the little lake so that if I'm on one engine or dead in the water floating I will end up against a shore instead of out into the middle of Lake Michigan. Or if the boat sinks I'm closer to shore since the water temp is so cold and I don't have any of the safety gear on the boat yet. I have not put the vhf radio, sat phone, epirb, etc. so I would have no way to contact anyone if something went wrong.

[QUOTE=outonsafari;4504132]bro, keep up ! page 29, post # 284

I have the remote control hooked up but I took the reverse gear out of the transmission because it was blocking the return opening to the dry sump pump too much and the transmission was filling up with oil and going out the vent. And I have not had time to change the drain openings in the case.
I mounted the external valve body for the transmission up on the back shelf and there is around 7' of hose to the transmission, I did not think it would take so long to fill the line with oil so there is a few seconds delay when you put it in gear. Between no reverse and a delay going into forward it is pretty interesting to put it on the trailer.